With all this talk of Alice Ripley's off-stage craziness, I would love to see her as Margaret White.
Can you imagine that "And Eve Was Weak"?
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
People crab about the bitchiness of people like Michael Reidel, but I loved the olden days where reviewers WOULD go for the jugular when a show was a piece of crap. Now any cavalcade of bad buzz and mediocre songs can sputter across the country and park on Broadway for MONTHS.
Actually, those are the London rehearsals which took place prior to their London mounting which was BEFORE the show came to Broadway.
After the "Do Me a Favor" sequence, Barbara Cook is briefly seen rehearsing with Linzi. Barbara Cook played Margaret White during the London incarnation of the musical. Betty Buckley took over the role for its Broadway incarnation.
Also, in the "Out for Blood" dance break rehearsal with Charlotte, you can spot Scott Wise and Joey McKneely among the guys.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Charlotte D'Amboise, Sally Ann Triplett & Linzi Hateley... wow all 3 have moved on to be the leading ladies of Broadway & West End. And weirdly enough I think all 3 of them still have the voice AND the dancing abilities! AND all 3 are Roxies! Wudnt it be great if they can all be in a reunion of some sort!
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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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I think my favorite part of ALL of these bootlegs clips is Charlotte D'Amboise's dance break in "In." I don't care how bad the show is, girl is fierce.
I never understood all of the unneeded pelvic thrusting in the choreography for this show. It's like they're raping the air or something.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas." -Danmeg's 10 year old son.